<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">  <title>Re: [CAUT] excessive pedaling?</title> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Well put Fred. = <o:p></o:p> I have 150 pianos to care for and = one must have priorities,  a.?  Then there is parts yah.  Good = luck, and how about funding for conventions.<o:p></o:p> Don Wigent E C U = <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Wednesday, March = 23, 2005 10:00 PM To: <st1:PersonName = w:st="on">College and University Technicians</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [CAUT] = excessive pedaling?<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> On 3/21/05 2:30 PM, = "Chris Solliday" <solliday@ptd.net> = wrote:<o:p></o:p> The trouble with being unaware is that one is unaware = of being unaware. Chris Solliday<o:p></o:p>     Actually, other than making a triple negative = and offering opportunities for a few wisecracks, I think that Chris, in his = typical cryptic way, was making a good point. He was commenting on my post, = where I said that as a young pianist I didn’t think much of the una corda = pedal because I had never played a piano that had been well-regulated and = voiced (specifically with respect to una corda). So I was unaware of the possibilities, and “unaware that I was unaware.” Hence I had = a prejudice that was unwarranted, and was missing a very important = skill.     Which brings me to the reason I am bothering to = parse Chris’ prose: As caut’s we have a very special = responsibility. We are the ones who give the ever new generation of pianists their = experience of what a piano can be. To the extent we succeed in giving them instruments = to practice and perform on that are responsive, that have all kinds of = subtlety possible by virtue of regulation and voicing, we will have helped = educate not only them but their students. We will raise their expectations, so when = they go somewhere else they will know what is possible and will demand it. Which = is why I give a great deal of emphasis (as much as my limited time allows) to = keeping the piano major practice grands in as close to performance shape as I = can, along with piano faculty and the concert instruments. The rest of the = inventory can be average.     If I don’t provide pianos that have had a = good una corda voicing, as one example, the piano students who play them = won’t learn what the possibilities are, and they will be unaware of being = unaware.     Nuff of that <g> Regards, Fred Sturm <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType = w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> = <o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>